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On Thursday, 12 September 2013, a 50 strong police contingent drawn from the Maharashtra Police Force, the Delhi Police Special Cell and the Maurice Nagar police thana, raided the residence of Dr. Saibaba, an Asst. Prof. in English at Ram Lal Anand College. They brought computer technicians with them. Dr. Saibaba, his wife and their minor 15-year old daughter were detained for about four hours from 3.00 PM onward for an investigation into the use of his residence “as a place for the deposit of stolen property”.

Constitute Immediately a Judicial Inquiry into the Killing of Ganti Prasadam by Vigilante Goons!

Ganti Prasadam, the All India Vice-President of Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF) as well as the Executive Member of the Committee for the Relatives and Friends of Martyrs, succumbed to the brutal and fatal attack on 5 July 2013 on him by unidentified gunmen in Nellore town. He was fatally wounded on his his neck with hunting sickles and later shot at with a pistol on the 4th afternoon. Comrade Ganti Prasadam was at Nellore to attend a public meeting of the Martyrs' Committee held every year to remember the martyrs of Nellore. He bacame the target of the waiting goons when after the meeting, along with three of his associates of the committee he was on to visit one of the ailing relatives of a martyr at a local hospital. Ganti Prasadam was operated on after receiving bullet injuries and the doctors were trying in vain to remove the third bullet which was dangerously close to his spinal cord. Comrade Ganti Prasadam this time could not sustain his arduous struggle to keep up his breath.

Given the notorious anti-people track-record of the intelligence agencies in Andhra Pradesh which have resorted to the worst kinds of atrocities on the struggling oppressed people of the region, be it naxalites, adivasis, dalits or Muslims, this murderous operation is reminiscent to the dastardly assassination of people's political, social and civil rights activists in the past 40 years. Dr. Ramanadham, Purushottam, Jappa Laxmana Reddy, Prabhakar Reddy, Kanakachari, Azam Ali, Belli Lalita are a few examples of dedicated people's leaders and civil rights activists targetted by the state in Andhra Pradesh in the past.

REVOLUTIONARY DEMOCRATIC FRONT (RDF) -- Press Release, 22-02-2013

Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF) condemns the dastardly act of twin bomb blasts at Dilshuk Nagar, Hyderabad yesterday. It is an anti-human blast incident that can be only described as an act of terrorism. The blasts killed 16 ordinary and common people, fatally injured 5 and injured 120. This shows that the blasts were triggered by professionally trained terrorists.

Protest Against the Criminalisation of Muslim Youth! Scrap UAPA and All Draconian Laws!

29/04/2013

On the 23 April 2013, around 11 in the morning, twenty one activists aged 20-25 of the Popular Front of India (PFI) were arrested from a building that was under construction at Naraath, Kannur district, Kerala. The arrest as reported in the press was done under the leadership of DySP P. Sukumaran of the Kerala police. After the 21 activists were taken away from the site of the arrest, the police claimed to have seized two country bombs, one sword and materials that can be used for making country bombs along with literature of Popular Front of India and Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI). All these were displayed before the media at the site.

After the much publicised display of seizure materials before the media the police was quick to slap Sec 18 of the draconian UAPA as well as 153-B of the Sedition Act on the 21 activists. These draconian clauses were beside the sections slapped under the arms/explosives act and on unlawful assembly. The police also declared that they are looking into the ‘terror links’ of these activists. And that they will raid every office of the PFI throughout the State. Some sections of the media even went ahead to say that the possible links of these activists with the recent blast that took place near the BJP office in Bangalore is also being looked into by the police. And as this is being written the Karnataka police have already stated the possible role of SDPI in the Bangalore blast.

Sir, With the reference to the subject cited above in the evening of 21st February 2013 an unfortunate incident of bomb blast took place in Dilsukhnagar area of Hyderabad in which almost 16 people were killed and hundreds injured. The dead belonged to all the religions and sections.

In protest of the brutal killing of ten comrades by TPC-Police-CRPF combine in Chhatra district, Jharkhand, And in protest of indiscriminate firing and killing of five comrades in Gadchiroli district, Maharastra by C-60 commandos!

Defeat the fascist policies of exploitative governments who are encouraging and sponsoring counter-revolutionary gangs and organizing attacks on masses and revolutionaries!

Condemn and expose the violation of all procedures and law! Stand for our Right to Protest and Freedom of Expression!

The illegal execution of Mohd. Afzal Guru has shocked the conscience of all the progressive, democratic people of the subcontinent. By now it is evident for every discerning mind that the claims of the central home minister and home secretary about procedures being followed before the execution have proven to be white lies. None of his family members were aware of this decision of the Government of India.

Condemn and expose the violation of all procedures and law! Stand for our Right to Protest and Freedom of Expression!

On the 4th of March 2013 the Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners (CRPP) observed a Protest Dharna at Jantar Mantar strongly condemning the illegal act of executing Mohd. Afzal Guru and exposing the blatant violation of all procedures of law in this execution.It was also to stand for our right to protest and freedom of expression.

COMMITTEE FOR THE RELEASE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS, 18/02/2013: "Condemn the highhanded, authoritarian attempts of the notorious Special Cell's attempt to seize the phones of Prof. SAR Geelani, the President of CRPP!"

In a highly reprehensible act the fascist, Special Cell of the Delhi Police made an attempt to seize the phones of Prof. SAR Geelani, the President of CRPP today (18 February 2013) morning at his residence in Zakir Nagar. On being asked by Prof. Geelani as to whether they had any written orders for seizing his phones and if so on what grounds the Special Cell officers maintained that they don't have such written orders. They insisted that they have verbal orders from their senior officials and they will seize the phones of Prof. Geelani. The Special Cell is putting pressure on Geelani to give away his phones.

It should be noted that despite the highhanded attempts of the Special Cell on the 9 February 2013 to forcefully take him away from the highway when he was travelling to be kept illegally at an undisclosed location till late in the night and then enforcing an undeclared house arrest on him for a couple of days, Prof. Geelani has been fearlessly making his observations clear before the media regarding the blatant violations behind the killing of Mohd. Afzal Guru. Most of the interviews came out to be a scathing indictment of the illegal execution of Mohd. Afzal Guru. It proved unequivocally that Mohd. Afzal Guru and his family were not only denied their basic human rights but were also denied justice from the day one of the trial of the Parliament attack case.